Friday, July 29, 2016

"The world has enough terrorists...we do not need the police to create more."

BC Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce

In what Vancouver Sun reporter Ian Mulgrew describes as a stunning decision, the Judge in the Canadian Terror Patsies trial today ruled that the pair were entrapped by the RCMP. She overruled last year's jury "guilty" decision and ruled that the police themselves broke the criminal code and if the guilty verdict were left to stand, it would obstruct justice. Well, that's about as clear a verdict as can be stated by a judge. But it's not good enough for the Crown and the police. They're going to appeal. But looking at the verdict from their POV...what other choice do they have? If they don't appeal, and win the appeal, the government's going to get its @$$es sued off by the couple for entrapment, false charges and imprisonment.

"VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia couple found guilty of terrorism charges have had their verdicts tossed out in a scathing court decision that flays the RCMP for its "egregious" conduct in manipulating naive suspects into carrying out a police-manufactured crime. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce said the Mounties used trickery, deceit and veiled threats to engineer the terrorist acts for which John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were arrested on Canada Day three years ago.The couple believed they were planting pressure-cooker bombs to kill and maim crowds gathered to celebrate at the B.C. legislature."The world has enough terrorists. We do not need the police to create more," Bruce said in a landmark ruling Friday as she characterized the RCMP's methods as "multi-faceted and systematic manipulation." "There is clearly a need to curtail the actions of police ... to ensure that future undercover investigations do not follow the same path." Bruce said Mounties involved in a months-long sting launched in early 2013 knowingly exploited Nuttall and Korody's vulnerabilities to induce them to commit an offence. She described the pair as marginalized, socially isolated, former heroin addicts dependent on methadone and welfare to subsist and said they were "all talk and no action." Nuttall and Korody were recent converts to Islam. Their trial heard Nuttall say in a recording that he wanted to kill and maim countless people during Canada Day festivities in retaliation for Canada's role in the mistreatment of Muslims in Afghanistan and other countries. Without the heavy-handed involvement of undercover officers, it would have been impossible for Nuttall and Korody to articulate, craft and execute a terrorist bomb plot, Bruce said. "Ultimately, their role in carrying out the plan was minuscule compared to what the police had to do," Bruce said. "It was the police who were the leaders of the plot." She also condemned the behaviour of the primary undercover officer who, at the direction of the operation's overseers, discouraged Nuttall and Korody from seeking outside spiritual guidance and convinced them he was a member of a powerful international terrorist group that would likely kill them if they failed to follow through. "He was their leader and they were his disciples," said Bruce, who stayed the proceedings, which threw out the convictions and allowed the couple to walk free after more than three years behind bars. They embraced outside B.C. Supreme Court before being temporarily re-arrested and later released from provincial court under a peace bond, which places them under strict conditions for up to a year. A jury found the pair guilty in June 2015 of terrorism-related charges but Bruce delayed registering the convictions at the request of defence lawyers, who wanted to argue the Mounties had entrapped their clients. The stay of proceedings means the charges won't appear on any criminal record and can't be used against the couple in the future. Had they been convicted, Nuttall and Korody could have faced a maximum sentence of life in prison. Nuttall's mother, Maureen Smith, was in court for the ruling and pumped her fist in the air when Bruce ordered a stay of proceedings. Smith said she was ecstatic about the verdict but still furious at the RCMP. "It makes me so angry that the cops did that to my son and Amanda," she said. "The police were dirty crooks for committing these crimes against people, especially marginalized ones." Outside court, Crown lawyer Peter Eccles said he was disappointed by the decision and emphasized that the couple still pose a threat to the public. "Let's face it, they did do it," Eccles said about Nuttall and Korody planting the inert explosives. "And they meant it." The Crown has filed an appeal of the ruling issued Friday. Marilyn Sandford, Nuttall's lawyer, referenced a section of the judge's ruling, which described the RCMP's perception of the risk posed by her client as "farcical." "We don't criminalize thought in our country," Sandford said. "We don't criminalize crazy ideas. There are a lot of people with crazy ideas who are not inclined to act on them." Korody's lawyer, Mark Jette, described the ruling as a "powerful indictment" against the RCMP and said the next step will be helping the couple re-integrate into society. Jette rejected the suggestion that the public should be concerned about the ruling hamstringing police from investigating terrorism threats. This is the first time in Canada that the legal defence of entrapment has been successfully argued in a terrorism case. Three previous attempts failed."This is not over...as John Nuttall himself stated outside the courtroom after the verdict. He said he and Amanda Korody just want to go away and live their lives and have children. But he's afraid to walk the streets of Canada...afraid the police will frame him again and/or take any children he and Amanda have. He says he can't live in this country anymore.

"The spectre of the defendants serving a life sentence for a crime that the police manufactured by exploiting their vulnerabilities ... is offensive to our concept of fundamental justice," wrote Bruce."

I would say that John's fears are well-founded. The police (and the police officers' handlers...CSIS) cannot let this verdict stand. Not only will it bring lawsuits by the victimized couple for entrapment and imprisonment, etc...as I said before...but the RCMP and CSIS are in deep doo doo with the international cabal. They were supposed to get a conviction, which would serve as a precedent in the further corruption of the justice system in Canada....and lay the groundwork for more entrapment of vulnerable patsies and more terror plots/false flags for the international terror grist mill they're setting up.This Canadian legal precedent can be applied internationally and is a major setback for Terror Inc. The mistake the perpetrators of the entrapment scheme made was that they needed a corrupt judge to go along with the corrupt police officers and CSIS agents. The Canadian judicial system just isn't far enough along in terms of corrupt judges....and hasn't kept up with the corruption of the police departments.

And speaking of justice. Kudos to Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce...a true Canadian heroine if ever there was one! Hopefully she can now retire in peace. She saved the integrity of the Canadian judicial system...for now at least.

2 comments:

Hi Greencrow: Amazingly the court did the right thing- The RCMP framed this couple and ruined their lives- I see the msm here is lamenting about the 'future of law enforcement'

That's not law enforcement- What the RCMP did was criminal! And it would be if it was done by anyone else but them.

However, the future of law enforcement is in jeopardy will be the meme the media will push to cover up the crimes of the RCMP- Something the media here is very used to doing- The RCMP are extremely corrupt- And have been for a very long time

Yes, the police were and are corrupt in this case. But, IMO, the real criminal who is flying completely under the media radar is the foreign mole in Canada...CSIS. CSIS was the "mastermind" behind this entire caper...the RCMP officers were just the "go-fers" and technicians. This caper was probably planned at Langley, Virginia off a template that is being used to entrap vulnerable patsies all over the world...France, Germany...Japan...wherever. I call it Terror International, INC>

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